Education
Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA)
Research directly addresses Millennium Development Goal 2, to provide every child with good quality basic schooling by 2015.
Sub-Saharan Africa is in urgent need of new and better-qualified teachers. The TESSA International Consortium is developing new forms of teacher education to support systemic improvements in the quality of classroom interactions in 12 African countries.
TESSA brings together a range of African and international partners to investigate how, and in what form, resources and structures can be put in place to provide high quality professional development opportunities for teachers on a large scale.
This research and development project is investigating a number of questions around teacher learning, including exploring how Open Educational Resources can best support improved professional learning in a range of forms and locations.
The project is led by Freda Wolfenden of the OU’s Faculty of Education and Language Studies. Since TESSA’s launch in 2005 it has attracted £3.9 million in funding, and in 2009 was awarded a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education.
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